Main description:

An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, Fifth Edition updates this classic book that has become a standard reference for health researchers. As with previous editions, readers will learn to work effectively in Stata to perform data management, compute descriptive statistics, create meaningful graphs, fit regression models, and perform survival analysis. The fifth edition adds examples of performing power, precision, and sample-size analysis; working with Unicode characters; managing data with ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes; and creating customized tables.

With many worked examples and downloadable datasets, this text is the ideal resource for hands-on learning, whether for students in a statistics course or for researchers in fields such as epidemiology, biostatistics, and public health who are learning to use Stata's tools for health research.

Contents:

I The basics

1. Getting started

2. Getting help-and more

3. Command syntax

II Data management

4. Variables

5. Getting data in and out of Stata

6. Adding explanatory text to data

7. Calculations

8. Commands affecting data structure

9. Taking good care of your data

III Analysis

10. Description and simple analysis

11. Regression analysis

12. Time-to-event data

13. Power, precision, and sample-size analysis

14. Measurement and diagnosis

15. Miscellaneous

IV Graphs

16. Graphs

V Advanced topics

17. Advanced topics